Why is every crow in the mid-Atlantic currently flocking over the construction site at the corner of MLK and Saratoga, I have never seen more crows in one place in my life

Cannot believe I missed this incredible detail in the Bolsonaro arrest story

Pathetic wormism

There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater

People are being rude to the creators of Flarf, Jibgube, AND Vreelax??

The applause at “We must keep our children ignorant of the horrors we are inflicting” is (arguably) more distressing than the rest

If you don't remember the time before the full text/video/audio Internet the magic machine of ILL is harder to appreciate

Acela class furious

The Armed Lifeboat is a very profitable business model!

Quite a metaphor. 👀 "The blaze [sent] panicked delegates racing to evacuate...rain from a torrential downpour leaked into the meeting spaces...There were complaints about food shortages, & the air-conditioning struggled to keep up with the high heat..."

I think we need a Mark Lombardi for the Epstein files

Lol

Reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes's beautifully phrased "a chemistry is performed" description of the Theranos process

Wow the tort reform folks got to Jenny Holzer

This should be a crudely pasted together, crookedly photocopied 7" cover by a band called The Crusted Himmlers

Book Sale Finder is up!

"Bit of an Ibsen play"? Aren't most of Ibsen's plays about wives stifled by their marriages to insufferable dipshits

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

The true prophet of the 20th century

Cool thanks

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

Baby Cakes Diary #3 - one of the most important videos of all time

Cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see

They got little baby legs They stand so low You got to pick 'em up Just to say hello

Baltimore, these contracts are for our area! >Price Modern $14M – office furniture for new ERO hires >Paragon Systems $6M – armed detainee transport >Kinro Mfg $233K – MREs for 6 months of detainees >Techops Specialty Vehicles $800K – Stingray trucks >Valence Vector $4.5M – personal device cracking

If your city is next, mutual aid and neighborhood watch networks are the most important things to scale up, but whistles are a great tool to get people taking the first step. linktr.ee/apwhistles

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

Hit order so fast

In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting: - AI skip tracing - AI face recognition - Cell tower spoofing vehicles - Signal exploitation equipment - 6 months of MREs for detainees - Detainee transport vans - Device cracking & data exploit firms

Pathetic Hopefully the nation's other schools of hotel management show more spine

Beast Land in Bad Decline

lol

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

I hope Zohran continues working with Jewish groups like @jfrejnyc.bsky.social that share his vision and empathy, and will continue ignoring hateful, Nazi-defending demagogues like Greenblatt who work to destroy the lives of all people who oppose genocide.

Really beautiful sentence in the Times article about the UPS crash in Louisville

PLAYING IT SAFE CAN CAUSE A LOT OF DAMAGE IN THE LONG RUN

so much depends upon a ginger tom frowning blankly beside the mannequin heads

I've always loved this song's line about the doctor giving you "a humbug pill, a dose of dope, and a great big bill" BUT it should make you reflect on how bad things are now: the humbug pill and the great big bill are still here, but dope is really hard to score from a doctor

When you see Prince Andrew's post on here (I'm blocked) asking for mutual aid, REMEMBER: not only is he a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, but he kept the $300 he raised and said he was giving to Food Not Bombs to make spaghetti squash. He is a phony comrade and a wrecker

I can't believe I've never seen this photo before

The New Bathroom Policy at English High School by Martin Espada (1990) The boys chatter Spanish from the bathroom while the principal listens from his stall The only word he recognizes is his own name and this constipates him So he decides to ban Spanish from the bathrooms Now he can relax

Statistical dead heat between Nina Simone - "Suzanne" and Nina Simone - "Isn't It a Pity"

Gets deep into your brain like plastic too

The conjunction of this grotesque show and the looming disaster in Jamaica and elsewhere is very sharp

"The first quarter of today's Ravens game is brought to you by the Maryland Problem Gambling Hotline"